Resonance
by Chris Dolley
This was so much damn fun. One of those books that seems like a strange, intense dream you just had. I read the entire thing in less than 24 hours without picking up any other books, which is pretty unusual if you know me.
Graham is a thirty-something guy who works in a mailroom and seems to have OCD. When a woman on the street slips him a note reading "Someone wants you dead," who can he trust? The pace of exposition throughout the book was excellent---it's not an exaggeration to say it kept me on the edge of my seat, even though after a few chapters I had a pretty good idea of what was going on with the science. (To their credit, one or two of the Annalises did have me doubting briefly.) Luckily, there's a LOT more to the mystery than that.
One thing that bugged me was the "natural selection isn't sufficient to explain the course of evolution," because NO. "Bzzzzt," as Annalise would have said. I can forgive it because it's necessary for the science this book runs on to make sense, but it still bugged the hell out of me. If you're a creationist into "intelligent design" and you read that and punched the air, you're still wrong. Even if it was true, it still doesn't make a ton of sense,